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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsQuick question: What's the anatomical name of the spot right below your neck?
In the center, at the very top of the torso?
Thanks in advance, and no need to question why I am asking this.
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Quick question: What's the anatomical name of the spot right below your neck? (Original Post)
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2019
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Anon-C
(3,430 posts)1. First things you run into are your sternum and clavicle iirc.
patricia92243
(12,597 posts)2. Front or back?
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)6. Front. nt
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)3. Shoulders
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)4. There is an area known as the xiphoid process.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)5. I call that spot where you poke your finger really hard when getting attacked by someone.
That's the first thing I thought of. Shrugs. I don't know.
Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)9. Why would you poke yourself?
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)10. Not me, the person coming after me.
That made me chuckle.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)13. That hurts just thinking about it!
But it's a good description!
mitch96
(13,923 posts)7. If I recall correctly it's the sternal notch...
Where the rt and lt clavicle meet near the midline of the body just above the top of the sternum/breast bone..
da breast bone connected to the wish bone..... etc..
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Kali
(55,019 posts)8. suprasternal notch
also known as the fossa jugularis sternalis or jugular notch
Paladin
(28,269 posts)11. I'm betting somebody's seen "The English Patient" recently. (nt)
pnwest
(3,266 posts)12. I couldn't think of where that's from....
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)14. I googled it...
It's called neck spot.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)15. Jowls
But that's only if I turn my head to the side.